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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2022 Edition
Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to plug at least 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. For the second month running, there are no scary zero-day threats looming for Windows users (that we know of), and relatively few "critical" fixes. And yet we know from experience that attackers are already trying to work out how to turn these patches into a roadmap for exploiting the flaws they fix. Here's a look at the security weaknesses Microsoft says are most likely to be targeted first.Most ServiceNow Instances Misconfigured, Exposed
Customers aren't locking down access correctly, leading to ~70 percent of ServiceNow implementations being vulnerable to malicious data extraction.
Russian APTs Furiously Phish Ukraine – Google
Also on the rise: DDoS attacks against Ukrainian sites and phishing activity capitalizing on the conflict, with China's Mustang Panda targeting Europe.
Securing healthcare: An IT health check on the state of the sector
No sector or organization is immune to rapidly escalating cyberthreats, but when it comes to healthcare, the stakes couldn’t be higher
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Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU
Lumen Technologies, an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world's Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. Lumen's decision comes just days after a similar exit by backbone provider Cogent, and amid a news media crackdown in Russia that has already left millions of Russians in the dark about what is really going on with their president's war in Ukraine.Microsoft Addresses 3 Zero-Days & 3 Critical Bugs for March Patch Tuesday
The computing giant patched 71 security vulnerabilities in an uncharacteristically light scheduled update, including its first Xbox bug.
The Uncertain Future of IT Automation
While IT automation is growing, big challenges remain. Chris Hass, director of information security and research at Automox, discusses how the future looks.
Zero-Click Flaws in Widely Used UPS Devices Threaten Critical Infratructure
The 'TLStorm' vulnerabilities, found in APC Smart-UPS products, could allow attackers to cause both cyber and physical damage by taking down critical infrastructure.
Bug in the Linux Kernel Allows Privilege Escalation, Container Escape
A missing check allows unprivileged attackers to escape containers and execute arbitrary commands in the kernel.
Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime
Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable ransomware gang in operation today. The candid messages revealed how Conti evaded law enforcement and intelligence agencies, what it was like on a typical day at the Conti office, and how Conti secured the digital weaponry used in their attacks. This final post on the Conti conversations explores different schemes that Conti pursued to invest in and steal cryptocurrencies.Novel Attack Turns Amazon Devices Against Themselves
Researchers have discovered how to remotely manipulate the Amazon Echo through its own speakers.
Samsung Confirms Lapsus$ Ransomware Hit, Source Code Leak
The move comes just a week after GPU-maker NVIDIA was hit by Lapsus$ and every employee credential was leaked.
Nvidia’s Stolen Code-Signing Certs Used to Sign Malware
Nvidia certificates are being used to sign malware, enabling malicious programs to pose as legitimate and slide past security safeguards on Windows machines.
Critical Firefox Zero-Day Bugs Allow RCE, Sandbox Escape
Both vulnerabilities are use-after-free issues in Mozilla's popular web browser.
Cyber‑readiness in the face of an escalated gray zone conflict
Organizations worldwide should remain on high alert for cyberattacks as the risk of major cyber-spillover from the crisis in Ukraine continues to loom large
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How the tech community has rallied to Ukraine’s cyber-defence | Joyce Hakmeh and Esther Naylor
From an army of volunteers to EU and Nato teams, the variety of online actors working for the cause is unprecedented
As the conflict in Ukraine escalates, expert cyber-watchers have been speculating about the kind of cyber-attacks that Russia might conduct. Will the Kremlin turn off Ukraine’s power grid, dismantle Ukraine’s transport system, cut off the water supply or target the health system? Or would cybercriminals operating from Russia, who could act as proxies for the Russian regime, conduct these activities?
Over the past decade, Ukraine has experienced many major cyber-attacks, most of which have been attributed to Russia. From election interference in 2014, which compromised the central electoral system and jeopardised the integrity of the democratic process; to a hack and blackout attack in a first-of-its-kind fully remote cyber-attack on a power grid in 2015, resulting in countrywide power outages; to one of the costliest malicious software attacks, NotPetya, in 2017, which significantly disrupted access to banking and government services in Ukraine and, subsequently, spilled over to France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, the UK, the US and Australia.
Joyce Hakmeh is a senior research fellow for the International Security Programme at Chatham House. Esther Naylor is a research analyst at the International Security Programme
Continue reading...Massive Meris Botnet Embeds Ransomware Notes from REvil
Notes threatening to tank targeted companies' stock price were embedded into the DDoS ransomware attacks as a string_of_text directed to CEOs and webops_geeks in the URL.
Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry
Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Part II explored what it's like to be an employee of Conti's sprawling organization. Today's Part III looks at how Conti abused a panoply of popular commercial security services to undermine the security of their targets, as well as how the team’s leaders strategized for the upper hand in ransom negotiations with victims.Week in security with Tony Anscombe
New malware targeting organizations in Ukraine – How organizations can improve their cyber-resiliency – Scammers taking advantage of the crisis
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Free HermeticRansom Ransomware Decryptor Released
Cruddy cryptography means victims whose files have been encrypted by the Ukraine-tormenting ransomware can break the chains without paying extortionists.